The current champion of Russia for her performance in the free program received from the judges 152.53 points.
In the short program, her result was 73.51 points. Thus, by the sum of two rentals Shcherbakova scored 226.04 points.
The second was Japanese Satoko Miyahara (211.18), and another Russian, Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (209.10), closed the top three.
Another representative of Russia - Sofia Samodurova - took the fifth line (185.29).
Earlier, Victoria Sinitsina and Nikita Katsalapov won ice dancing at the Grand Prix stage in China.